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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2023 – present: Senior Economic Research Specialist, Homes England

  • Housing market and policy analysis in the Research and Analysis Team


December 2019 – December 2022: Senior Lecturer in Economics, Birmingham City University

  • Team management and curriculum development: Program Director for BA/BSc (Hons) Economics since Sep 2020. Duties include program administration, managing colleagues, student pastoral care, program evaluation and quality monitoring, design of new undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in economics, report writing, chairing meetings.

  • Academic leadership: Recruitment Lead for Economics since Sep 2020, Module team leader for Year 2 modules “Macroeconomics” and “Economics for Sustainable Development”, Personal tutor for Year 1 and 3. Duties include liaising with university marketing team to organise recruitment events and strategies, development and delivery of module curriculum and assessment, offering student support.

  • Research and policy impact: Research consultant for the United Nations and the South African National Treasury (Apr 2021–Mar 2022), Member of Centre for Applied Finance and Economics.

  • Interpersonal skills and equality: Universities and Colleges Union BCU branch women’s representative (academic year 2020/21). Duties included pastoral care for union members, leading on strategies for increasing gender equality, report writing, branch administration.

  • External examining: External examiner at Kingston University since Sep 2020. Duties include evaluation of module quality and assessment standards, providing feedback to module leaders.

 

November 2017 – December 2019: Lecturer in Economics, The Open University

  • Academic leadership: Module team chair and Exam board chair for Year 2 module “Running the economy”; Economics lead for Year 3 module “Applied statistical modelling”. Duties included managing colleagues, coordination and marking of assessment, quality monitoring.

  • Curriculum design: Design and editing of written and digital curricula for Year 1 module “Economics in context” and Year 3 module “Applied statistical modelling”.

  • Assessment design: Writing essay/exam questions, marker guidelines, and student guidelines for Year 2 module “Running the economy” and Year 1 module “Economics in context”.

  • Student contact: organisation of online and face-to-face feedback sessions, student support.

  • Research development: Member of Innovation Knowledge Development centre and Open Political Economy Group; involvement in PhD student co-supervison.

  • Outreach: Economics Discipline Media Lead at Faculty level, co-lead of departmental Twitter handle, production of audio-visual content for teaching and promotional purposes, production of externally-facing online course on inequality on OpenLearn platform.

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October – December 2017: Assistant Economist, UK Department of Health, Medicines and Pharmacy Team

  • Policy research: conducted statistical modelling, contributed to policy reports and impact assessments in Medicines and Pharmacy Team.

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November 2015 – January 2018 Editor, The Statesman’s Yearbook Palgrave Macmillan

  • Editing of country economic overviews for the 2016 edition of the Statesman’s Yearbook

 

August 2015 – January 2016 Research Assistant London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Research assistance in the International History Department in translation of archives

 

August 2013 – February 2014 Diversity Assistant SOAS, University of London

  • Research assistance in the Equality and Diversity division at the Deputy Secretary office

  • Gathering and processing of data from the National Student Survey and preparation of reports

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June 2012 Market Research Intern Allianz Polska, Warsaw

  • Active research skills: developed by preparing internal and external research (survey design), analysing results (survey coding, mapping and graphing) and presenting results (professional reports);

  • Commercial awareness: achieved by successfully following a steep learning curve in the insurance market, accompanied by corporate culture awareness. 

 

July 2011 Online Market Research Intern CYTS, Beijing (CRCC Asia Internship Program)

  • Passive research skills: acquired by researching travel markets in China, Poland and Russia, followed by establishing business partnerships with Polish travel companies;

  • Presentation skills: improved by leading weekly presentations on improving company's website from a marketing perspective and preparing its Russian version;

  • Cultural awareness: developed by working in a Chinese business environment, reviewing the work of Chinese colleagues and producing written pieces for the company's website. 

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